Re: [idvusers] IDV Font Quality

AGREED!

Question is, who would be tasked with development on the VisAD side?

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From: idvusers-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <idvusers-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> on 
behalf of Larry D. Oolman <ldoolman@xxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2014 11:06 AM
To: don.murray@xxxxxxxx; idvusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [idvusers] IDV Font Quality

On 02/11/14 08:01, Don Murray wrote:
> Hi Paul-
>
> On 2/10/14 3:41 PM, Paul Graham wrote:
>> Is it possible to improve the font quality in IDV, or are there any plans
>> afoot by the development team to do so?
>
> The font quality varies from platform to platform.  I find that I get better 
> quality on Windows than I do with Mac.  But
> both suffer from the effects you see.  Text using fonts gets turned into a 
> series of triangles, filling the outline of
> the letter edges.  I find Century Gothic works pretty well, but still not 
> great.  The Hershey fonts use lines only, but
> you see the lines when the text gets big.
>
>> It appears IDV does not handle scalable fonts, so often text appears
>> pixelated, jagged or with artefacts, especially when rescaled.
>
> A possible solution would be to use the Java 3D Text3D objects.  That would 
> require some significant development to add
> it to VisAD first, and then access that in the IDV.  I'm not aware of anybody 
> who is interested in doing that, although
> it would go a ways towards Unidata's goal of "publication quality graphics" 
> for the IDV.
>
> Don

I would vote that improving the fonts should be a high priority.
It is one of the major reasons that I see resistance from switching from GEMPAK.

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Larry Oolman
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University of Wyoming
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